Clinical Electrophysiology Fellowship
Message from the Director
The Clinical Electrophysiology Training Program at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine is a two-year program providing fellows with state of the art training in all aspects of cardiac electrophysiology and device implantation and follow-up. The program accepts one trainee per year. Typically there is a senior and junior electrophysiology fellow working in tandem with an attending electrophysiologist in the electrophysiology laboratory, arrhythmia and device clinic and on the arrhythmia consult service.
The Electrophysiology Program has seven attending Electrophysiologists including Drs. Deborah Wolbrette, Gerald V. Naccarelli, Mario Gonzalez, Soraya Samii, Javier Banchs, Erica Penny-Peterson in adult Electrophysiology and Mark Cohen (a Pediatric Electrophysiologist). The program is designed to meet all of the requirements for board eligibility in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and provides level 3 COCATS training in clinical electrophysiology, ablation, and device implantation and follow-up. Training in intracardiac electrophysiology studies, intracardiac echocardiography, 3-D mapping, transeptal catheter techniques, radiofrequency and cryo catheter ablation of tachyarrhythmias in adults and children, cardioversion, pacemaker, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and biventricular pacemaker insertion and follow-up, and tilt table testing is offered. A continuity outpatient experience in the arrhythmia clinic along with arrhythmia consultation of a diverse arrhythmia population including postoperative arrhythmias, arrhythmias from patients on a busy congestive heart failure/ cardiac transplant service and an adult congenital heart disease program is emphasized. Trainees are exposed and can participate in clinical and basic research. Research emphasis is on clinical trials involving investigational antiarrhythmic drugs and implantable devices.
Candidates for fellowship must submit a completed application form with a recent photograph, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference.
All applications will be reviewed after the application is complete and after all three letters of reference are received. One of these letters must be from the head of the Department of Medicine or from the Residency Director.
Applicants granted interviews will be notified, and a date of interview will be arranged. Although travel expenses will be the responsibility of the applicant, free lodging will be provided for the night prior to the interview.
Click here to download the application in PDF format. All inquiries regarding the Cardiology Fellowship Program should be directed to:
Soraya M. Samii, M.D.
Program Director, CCEP Fellowship Program
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
P.O. Box 850, MC H047
Hershey, PA 17033CardiologyFellowship@hmc.psu.edu
Phone: 717-531-6746
Fax: 717-531-0099
Research is a vital part of the section of cardiology and all Electrophysiology fellows are encouraged to participate in ongoing research projects.
Recent publications in electrophysiology include:
Patel P, Banchs JE, Stevenson RT, Patel ND, Naccarelli GV, Wolbrette DL, Samii SM , Penny-Peterson ED, Gonzalez MD. “Distal Balloon Occlusion Allows Epicardial Lead Placement in a Tortuous Branch of the Great Cardiac Vein”. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. Accepted for publication October 2008.
Cardiology Fellowship
Penn State College of Medicine
MC H047; Box 850
500 University Dr.
Hershey, Pa 17033
Voice: 717-531-6746
FAX: 717-531-0099
Electrophysiology Curriculum
View the Current EP Curriculum